2011 Completed Projects

• Brush Plant Road Reach

The objective of this project is to move riparian areas toward a later seral stage to achieve water quality and habitat benefits for summer chum and other Salmonids.

• Union River Estuary Restoration – Design

Approximately 45 acres of prime wetlands have been cut off from normal tidal action by a historic dike in the esturary of the Union River.  This situation is now reversible.  The goal of this project is to develop a plan to breach the existing dike and return the wetlands to prime salmonid habitat, while maintaining trail access for the community.   Specifically we will utilize existing, conceptual-level information to develop final design and permitting so construction can start in the 2011/2012 window.  This effort has developed several dike-breaching alternatives to  maximize the restoration opportunity while maintaining trail access.

• Lower Tahuya LWD Phase 2 Placement

This project will implement the projects in Reach 2 and 3 of the Lower Tahuya River Reach Assessment and Conceptual Large Woody Debris Placement Plan completed by The Watershed Company for SRFB grant #08-1995. See: Lower Tahuya River Reach Assessment and LWD Design (12-01-000) for more information on the completed watershed assessment and woody debris design project completed in 2009.